Libyan MiG-23PE Flintlock

[Empty Handed]

A MiG-23PE Flintlock of the Libyan Air Force on a reconnaissance mission somewhere near Lampedusa:

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PE Flintlock Libyan AF by Matthew Palmer, on Flickr

[GTX_Admin]

Nce.  Is that based on a real aircraft or pure fictional?

[Empty Handed]

Its from a piece of art by a Peter Elson, originally found at the foot of this page.

http://www.etoday.ru/2012/08/illyustrator-peter-elson.php

Described as a MiG-23-on-steroids by Weaver over on whatifmodelers, I used a MiG-23 profile as a basis with tweaks. I also made a crude 3D rendition in SimplePlanes.



Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PE Flintlock AVMF by Matthew Palmer, on Flickr

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PE Flintlock 3 by Matthew Palmer, on Flickr
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PE Flintlock 22 by Matthew Palmer, on Flickr
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PE Flintlock 38 by Matthew Palmer, on Flickr
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PE Flintlock 39 by Matthew Palmer, on Flickr
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PE Flintlock 40 by Matthew Palmer, on Flickr

[taiidantomcat]

Thats amazing!! Great profile and what a Great find.

Love Elson for all his sci fi work, and somehow never came across his flogger. Not in any of my books either. Wow

[Empty Handed]

Thanks. Elson's concept is just so wonderfully brutalistic. Very Soviet.

[ChernayaAkula]

Nice profiles.  Love the panel shading.

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I can see how that got the creative juices flowing. 
Flogger-on-steroids sounds about right!    

The aircraft in the Elson painting looks like someone got a kit of a half-started Phantom, but missing the instructions. Also some additional bits of unknown provenance. Nice kit-bash!